Welcome to The Rough Cut Club

The Rough Cut Club Podcast is a comprehensive educational podcast breaking down advanced tactics to level up your craft as a filmmaker. Joey Nicotra, DP and Creative Director at CinemaStory Studios, along with his co-host Shane Reitzammer, Producer and CEO at CinemaStory Studios, discuss the art and business of filmmaking with top indie filmmakers from around the world.

Stories from their collective 20+ years of filmmaking in the commercial, corporate, music video, wedding, and narrative space, along with other filmmakers from around the world, will educate, inspire, and hopefully give you a laugh as we pull back the curtain on the crazy world of full-time filmmaking.

JOEY NICOTRA

Joey Nicotra is a Director of Photography from Dallas, Texas. After attending film school at the University of North Texas, he has shot thousands of client videos, national broadcast commercials, television shows, music videos, documentaries, and most notably his first feature film, “Washington’s Armor,” that is currently out on Amazon Prime. He is also the Creative Director for CinemaStory Productions.

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SHANE REITZAMMER

Shane is an Emmy-nominated producer and award-winning documentary filmmaker from Dallas, Texas. In 2010, Shane founded CinemaStory and has produced over 3,000 pieces of content, from short-form commercials to long-form entertainment. He currently acts as the CEO at CinemaStory with a heavy focus on marketing not only for the company but for his clients. Occasionally, we let him out of the office to direct a project or even get him behind the camera on our gimbal.

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